Category Archives: Privacy
Smartphone Apps Latest Threat to Personal Information
Perhaps you have by now heard of the teenage girl in which Target knew she was pregnant before her father did. It is shocking the personal information that companies gather on individuals, but at least in the case of shopping habits, it is more or less a known quantity. However, there are now bigger threats to our privacy and information that could harm us if it falls into the wrong hands.
The Telegraph posted a couple of days ago the article “Companies use apps to harvest users’ personal information”. Some smartphone apps have terms and conditions that allowing the sharing of personal information, which could include contacts and even text messages!
GoDaddy and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Censorship keeps increasing in the Not-So-“Land of the Free”, and HR 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (or, should that be Seditious Overt Power Act?) is just the latest example of how Big Brother knows what is right for you. Oddly enough, GoDaddy originally came out in support of this unconstitutional act! According to a Gizmodo article (which has a title I’d rather not repeat here):
So far, none of our voluntary action has stifled legitimate capitalism online. And neither will robust intellectual property enforcement.
This has nothing to do with “intellectual property enforcement” and everything to do with the greed of media companies.
